The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-09-29

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great passenger route across the conti-
nent.
The party spent the night at the
beautiful resort of Manitou, which has
entertained $4,000 visitors this season.
Here there are mineral springs, good
hotels aud boarding houses, and noun
tain scenery of the very grandest.
From the porch of the Sunnyside hotel
we looked UP at the colossal form of
Pixies Peak, towering far above the
timber line, and showing a spot of
eternal snow, which, we were inform
ed, was the mouth of an extinct volca-
no. From here the tourist frequently
climbs to the top OF this mighty con-
tinental land mark. which can be seen
for several hundred miles. The dis.
tance- from Mnnitou to the top is II
miles, although the mountain itself is
not quite three miles high.
Monday morning the editors were
seated in carriages furnished by the
citizens Of Manitou and Colorado
Springs and driven through the Garden
OF the Gods, which some one suggests
should have been named the ''TOmbs
of the Giants" The impression upon
us was that of 4 cemetery of the Gods.
where the Vufcans and Th0rs had fur
nished ti,e monuments aud the sculp-
lures. There is a liberty, an abandon,
a divine vastness and superiority to all
schools, rules and criticisms, in chisel.
ing these towering monuments and
resemblances to human and animal
forms, which only the Gods could at
tain to.
From the Garden. the party was
driven to the beautiful city OF Colorado
Springs, Il city of s. 900 to 5000 inhabit-
ants. Il prohibition city, and the point
| selected by rich men from the mines
and from the east at which to build
their fine residences and make their
homes. The ''Springs' should be
dropped rs there are no springs 1T this
place. But the climate is said to be
almost perfect for lnvalids, especially
for consumptives who are not too far
gone.
From the city the party was driven
to Cheyenne Canon, where u bounti-
full lunch was served amid the towering
rocks and peaks.
At Colorado Springs our journey
with the party ended, but the editors
went thence to Pueblo, where they
spent Il day, and from there went
through the Grand Canon Of the Ar
kansas and over the range to Monte
Vista, in the San Luis valley.
It is Il good thin. sometimes to be
an editor, for all this fine ride through
the Rockies and all this feasting. Was
at the expense of the Coloradiaus.
More hereafter.
| NOVEL BET.
| While am not betting man, said
F. j. Cheney, Of the firm of F. J. Che
ney & Co., considered it my religious
duty to make that fellow a bet; you see
he was about dead, and l guess he
would have died before spring, if had
not got him on the bet. You know
some men had rather lose their life
than lose Il hundred; we'll. he was one
Of that kind, and we both came near
being out, but saved my hundred and
it only cost him ten dollars. How's
that? He sent for me one day and
said the doctors had all given him up
to die with the catarrh. told him
that would bet him 500 that IIall's
Catarrh Cure would cure him. or
would give him 500 if it failed. He
took the latter proposition. This was
three months ago; you see how he
| looks now, don't you, as we'll as any
one, and a dandy.-American, Toledo,
Ohio.
Sabin's swindling Saltwater manu-
featuring enterprises are to be closed
out under the sheriff's hammer. What
Il fortunate thing it would have been
for Minnesota if. Sabin's collapse had
occurred before his election to the
senate, and it would doubtless also
have been a fortunate thing for many
of his oreditors.-Martin Co. Sentinel.
1t would have been fortunate for
Sabin's business interests, no doubt,
if he had never been elected to the SEN
ate. He was elected by money and to
represent the money interests of St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Saltwater, and
money will see him through his present
business difficulties.